cURL

Webservices with PHP 2025-12-21
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  • • cURL is the swiss army knife of URL requests.
  • • PHP's cURL extension is some of the best written code in the universe.
  • cough cough
  • • Can easily grok
  • • HTTP(S) POST, GET, PUT, DELETE
  • • Proxy Authentication (Basic, NTLM, Digest)
  • • Non blocking transfers on multiple sources
  • • Content Compression
  • • cURL is faster than Streams and Fopen wrappers